Four flags for Simchat Torah - a lithographic print on cardboard - among them rare versions. Israel, 1950s.
1. Children of different ethnic backgrounds hold Simchat Torah flags. On the right, a Yemenite in peot and traditional dress, on the left, Israeli children dressed in Hebrew Scouts. In the center is a large Star of David and inside it are many small Star of David, the Ark whose doors 'open' and behind which are hidden three Torah scrolls. In The "Flags of Simchat Torah from the Jewish Art to Israeli Hebrew Culture", Eretz Israel Museum 2012, this flag appears in a late paper version from the 1960s printed by A. Zaslansky. Here is the early original printed by him on cardboard from the 1950s.
2. Flag in lithographic print on cardboard. Israel [?], 1950s. Children and adults dance with Torah scrolls in their hands, in the center of which the doors of the ark 'open'. Very rarely, does not appear in the "Flags of Simchat Torah from the Jewish Jewish Art to Israeli Hebrew Culture" Eretz Israel Museum 2012.
3. Flag in lithographic print on cardboard designed by Livni Zvi [Signed in print Z.L.]. Israel c. 1950. Children dance with Simchat Torah flags. In the center a child is holding a Torah scroll.
4. Flag in lithographic print on cardboard designed by Livni Zvi [Signed in print Z.L.] Israel c. 1950. - Children read in the Torah, left and right illustrations of the holy places: Rachel's Tomb and the Western Wall inspired by postcards from Holy Land from the 19th century. (See 'The flags of Simchat Torah' there is an identical copy from the collection of the Israel Museum).
Same size: 35x25 cm. On the back of the flags decorations and quotes from the Tora. general condition good.
